Pack Holiday 2002 - Southampton -

There is an accompanying folder of leader notes with more information on activities, games etc.

Saturday 17th August

2.00 p.m. Arrive, set up camp, explore site. Rules of Camp, explain what we will be doing during the week
3.30 Map 1
4.30 Game/free time
5.30 Tea & washing up
6.30 Compass 1
7.30 Prepare S. own/cooking 1
8.30 Game
10.00 Supper/indoor games
11.00 Bed
11.30 Lights out

Equipment: Maps, compasses, scouts own stuff, pencils, paper, indoor games, outdoor games stuff

Sunday 18th August

7.30 A.M. Rise, Wash, Dress Exercise
8.30 Breakfast & Wash Up
9.30 Scouts Own
10.00 Map 2
11.00 Refreshments
11.15 Tent Pitching 1
12.15 Lunch & Wash Up
1.30 Map 3
3.30 Tuck Shop & Free Time
4.30 Cooking 2
5.30 Tea & Wash Up
6.30 Hiking 1 & 2
8.30 Game
10.00 Indoor Games & Supper
11.00 Bed
11.30 Lights Out

Equipment: as Saturday + tents, rucksacks

Monday 19th August

8.00 a.m. Rise, wash & dress exercise
8.30 Breakfast & wash up
9.30 Fire 1
11.00 Refreshments
11.15 Fire 2
12.30 Lunch & wash up
1.30 Final test 1
4.00 Tuck shop - free time
5.30 Tea & wash up
6.30 Cooking 5
7.30 game
8.30 First Aid 1
9.30 Game
10.30 Supper
11.00 bed
11.30 Lights out

Equipment : as before + First aid stuff

Tuesday 20th August

7.30 a.m. Rise, wash, dress exercise
8.30 Breakfast & wash up
9.30 Prepare for outing
4.00 Return/free time
4.30 Pioneering 1 & 2
5.30 Tea & wash up
6.30 First Aid 2
8.30 game
10.00 Indoor games & supper
11.00 bed
11.30 lights out

Equipment: as Saturday + tents, ropes, rucksacks

Wednesday 21st August

7.30 a.m. Rise, wash, dress exercise
8.30 Breakfast & wash up
9.30 Compass 2
11.00 Refreshments
11.15 Final Test 4
12.30 Lunch & wash up
1.30 Pioneering 3
3.00 tuck shop & free time
4.00 tent pitching 2
5.30 Tea & wash up
6.30 Compass 3
7.30 Game
8.30 First Aid 3
9.15 Game
10.00 Indoor games & supper
11.00 bed
11.31 lights out

Equipment: as before

Thursday 22nd August

7.30 a.m. Rise, wash, dress exercise
8.30 Breakfast & wash up
9.30 prepare for outing
10.00 leave for ????
4.00 Return & free time
5.30 Tea & wash up
6.30 Final Test 2
8.30 Game
10.00 Indoor games & supper
11.00 bed
11.30 lights out

Equipment: as Saturday + tents, ropes, rucksacks

Friday 23rd August

7.30 a.m. Rise, wash, dress exercise
8.30 Breakfast & wash up
9.30 Final test 3
11.00 Refreshments
12.15 Cooking 3
12.30 Lunch & wash up
1.30 Final test 5
3.30 tuck shop & free time
4.30 activity
5.30 Tea & wash up
6.30 game
7.30 Trivial Pursuit challenge (mixed teams)
8.30 Wide Game
10.00 Trivial Pursuits cont'd
11.00 Supper and bed
11.30 lights out

Equipment: as Saturday + tents, ropes, rucksacks

Saturday 24th August

7.30 a.m. Rise, wash, dress exercise
8.30 Breakfast & wash up
9.30 Pack up and clean up
12.0 Leave for home

Pack Holiday 2002

Fire

1. Basic types / principles / construction

2. Lighting

Map

1. Basics - Signs/Coords

2. Features/Landmarks

3. Route plan/hiking/route cards

Compass

1. Basics - Points/bearings

2. Map/Compass - Combinations/bearings/triangulation

3. Orienteering

Tent Pitching

1. Dome/patrol tent pitching

2. Pitching/Striking

Hiking

1. Route plan/Time/ Distances/stops

2. Rucksack/packing/equipment/weight

Pioneering

1. Knots

2. Lashings

3. Basic structures/engineering

First Aid

1. I

2. II

3. III

Cooking

1. Outdoor - meals/menu/food

2. Outdoor - trangia cooking 1

3. Outdoor - trangia cooking 1

4. Outdoor - trangia cooking 1

5. Indoor - plan/prepare/menu/diet

6. Indoor - meal 1

7. Indoor - meal 2

8. Indoor - meal 3

Final Tests

1. Hike 1 - plan and execute

2. Hike 2 - plan and execute

3. Orienteering - complete course

4. Fire - firelighting competition

5. Pioneering - pioneering competition

6. First Aid - First Aid test

Notes:

· Cubs & Scouts to complete all activities, each one to be run in two tiers.

· Each section to last roughly the same time and slotted into the program as appropriate.

· Menu to incorporate cooking tests above.

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Notes

1. This years Pack Holiday was unusual. Due to poor take up of the event (and the building and coach did not come cheap) we decided to allow Scouts to attend too. We had roughly equal numbers of Cubs and Scouts and tried as much as possible to keep them seperate. Although we did similar themed work obviously the Cubs and Scouts were kept in different levels and groups. We did eat and go out together and play most games together. Overall this didnt cause many problems...perhaps importantly because most of the leaders were used to running Cubs AND Scouts. There were some differences. For instance, come night time we played a late night game together. Then the Cubs would stay in and play indoor games or watch a video before being sent off to bed. Meanwhile the Scouts were taken down the road (we stayed in a County Park which closed at 9. So after 9 we had the whole country park to ourselves. After making a little noise late at night on the field by the building they received a complaint from a local farmhouse so for the rest of the week we walked half a mile down into the country park to play our late night games) for games, jokes, talking and ghost stories. Often until late.. And I mean late (think latest was just gone 2 in the morning!)